Word: nine
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...house or goldfish bowl? For the children of Presidents, the White House can be either one-or both. For Amy Carter, who at nine is the mansion's youngest resident since John F. Kennedy Jr. moved in with his parents at the age of two months in 1961, the first week seemed to balance out on the fun side...
That seemed to go for her new school too. By enrolling in 108-year-old Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, nine blocks from the White House, Amy became the first President's child to attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was another demonstration of the new First Family's egalitarian faith, it also thrust Amy even further into the public spotlight that seems increasingly to bother her. Arriving at the school door, Amy tugged unsmilingly at her mother's arm as she stopped to wave to the crowd...
...This is what I've really been working ten years for," Bradley said Sunday. He has competed in national championships nine times...
...leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the Yamuna River meets the Ganges. Alongside marched a troop of elephants, trumpeting, their heaving bodies covered with garlands and painted symbols. Then through the police cordon flowed thousands of pilgrims from nine other ancient Hindu sects. Among them came a procession of Naga sadhus, celibate holy men who follow Shiva, the god of the forces of both life and destruction. They were all naked, except for a coating of sand and ashes, to proclaim that they have no desire for earthly possessions...
Orosy and a classmate were drinking beer one night last year, lamenting the fact that other business schools had higher reputations than theirs. Thus the great idea: Why not invite the others to Ithaca to compete? According to a survey in M.B.A. magazine, business school deans ranked the top nine in employment value as Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Wharton School of Finance, Michigan, M.I.T., Carnegie-Mellon, Northwestern and Dartmouth (Cornell tied for 14th). Harvard loftily declined to compete, and Stanford said Ithaca was too far away, but the others all agreed to send four-member teams...